Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior, confirmed that the football match between France and Israel, scheduled for November 14 at the Stade de France, will not be relocated, despite calls to move or cancel it.
The football match between France and Israel, scheduled for November 14 at the Stade de France, will not be relocated, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced on Friday, November 8. “Some are calling for the France-Israel match to be relocated. I do not accept it: France is not backing down, because that would amount to abdicating in the face of threats of violence and anti-Semitism.posted Bruno Retailleau on his X account. “At my request, the prefect of police Laurent Nunez is making the necessary security arrangements for this match to take place at the Stade de France, as usual”he added.
The RN deputy Julien Odoul notably proposed on Thursday to move the meeting to Corsica while, at the beginning of November, the Insoumis Louis Boyard requested its outright cancellation. “I want this match not to take place”declared Louis Boyard, relaying a petition demanding the cancellation of this League of Nations meeting. The first leg, played on October 10 and won by the Blues (4-1), took place in Budapest. On September 6, the League of Nations meeting between Belgium and Israel did not take place in Brussels, as initially planned. It had been relocated to Debrecen in Hungary. Around sixty people were arrested after several incidents on the sidelines of the match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced “a premeditated attack”.
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